From the award-winning anthologists, a beautiful new book of short stories, designed as a perfect gift for readers of the supernatural, and a lifetime of reading pleasure.
A new anthology of Folk Horror stories, covering a wide range of mythologies and dark corners from around the world, revealing tales from the shadows of isolation, creepy forests and horrors rising from the land itself. Award-winning anthologists Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan have commissioned and chosen an outstanding selection of stories with contributions from authors including
Neil Gaiman,
John Connolly,
Adam L.G. Nevill,
Alison Littlewood and
Jen Williams. Five brand new stories have also been selected from open submissions.
The full list of featured authors in this book is: Linda D. Addison, V. Castro, John Connolly, Neil Gaiman, Helen Grant, Kathryn Healy, H.R. Laurence, Alison Littlewood, Lee Murray, Adam L.G. Nevill, Cavan Scott, Christina Sng, Benjamin Spada, Stephen Volk, Jen Williams, Katie Young and B. Zelkovich.
The
Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.
Addison, Linda D.: - Linda D. Addison is a five-time recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award, including for The Place of Broken Things and How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient of HWA Lifetime Achievement Award, HWA Mentor of the Year and SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry.
Castro, V.: - V. Castro is a two-time Bram Stoker Award nominated Mexican American writer of horror, erotic horror and science fiction, from San Antonio, Texas, residing in the UK. Her books include Immortal Pleasures, The Haunting of Alejandra, Alien: Vasquez, Mestiza Blood, The Queen of the Cicadas, Out of Aztlan, Las Posadas, Rebel Moon and Goddess of Filth.
Connolly, John: - John Connolly is author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. He has received the Irish Post Award for Literature, the US Shamus Award and an Edgar Award, among others. John writes regularly for newspapers and hosts a radio show on RTE.
Gaiman, Neil: - Neil Gaiman is author of New York Times bestsellers Norse Mythology, Coraline, The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods. He is the recipient of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and many Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner Awards. He is a Goodwill Ambassador for the Refugee Agency UNHCR and Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
Grant, Helen: - Helen Grant writes Gothic novels and short supernatural stories. Her most recent novels are the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award-winning Too Near The Dead and Jump Cut. Some of her recent short fiction includes 'The Professor of Ontography' and 'Nábrók'. Helen lives in rural Scotland.
Healey, Kathryn: - Kathryn Healy is a horror and fantasy author, as well as a writer for the 'Tale Foundry' Youtube channel. Her work has been featured in December Tales II (Curious Blue Press), Elegant Literature Magazine, and Creepy Podcast. She can be found online at kathrynhealy.com, or in person wherever haunted antiques are sold.
Kane, Paul: - Paul Kane is the award-winning bestselling author and editor of over 100 books, such as the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, Hellbound Hearts, Wonderland (Shirley Jackson Award finalist) and The Gemini Factor. His site shadow-writer.co.uk has featured Guest Writers such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Olivie Blake and Guillermo del Toro.
Laurence, H. R.: - H.R. Laurence grew up in North Yorkshire, and now works in the film industry in London. His weird fiction and sword & sorcery has appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including Old Moon Quarterly, Broadswords and Blasters, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.
Littlewood, Alison: - Alison Littlewood's first book, A Cold Season, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. Other titles include Mistletoe, The Hidden People, The Crow Garden and The Unquiet House. She also wrote The Other Lives of Miss Emily White and The Cottingley Cuckoo, as A.J. Elwood. She has won the Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction.
Murray, Lee: - Lee Murray is from Aotearoa-New Zealand and is a Shirley Jackson Award and five-time Bram Stoker Award winner with more than forty titles to her credit. Murray holds a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction and is an Honorary Literary Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Authors.
Nevill, Adam L. G.: - Adam L.G. Nevill is an author of horror fiction. Of his novels, The Ritual, Last Days, No One Gets Out Alive and The Reddening were all winners of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. He has also published three collections of short stories, with Some Will Not Sleep winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, 2017.
O'Regan, Marie: - Marie O'Regan is a Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadow and British Fantasy Award-nominated author and editor. She is co-editor of anthologies including the bestselling Hellbound Hearts, Cursed, Twice Cursed and The Other Side of Never, and is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing's novella imprint, Absinthe Books.
Scott, Cavan: - New York Times Bestseller Cavan Scott is creator of Shadow Service, The Ward, Dead Seas and Sleep Terrors. A lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic, Cavan has written comics for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW, Legendary, 2000AD and more. A former magazine editor, he is currently creative director of production company Strange Matter.
Sng, Christina: - Christina Sng is a three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning poet, writer, editor, essayist, and artist. Her work appears in numerous venues worldwide, including Interstellar Flight Magazine, New Myths, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post. Christina currently serves as Vice President of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.
Spada, Benjamin: - Benjamin Spada is the author of the award-winning Black Spear series of military thriller novels. After making a career in the military, he pursued his lifelong passion for writing and spinning of stories by drawing upon his own real-world experience serving alongside larger than life personalities in uniform.
Volk, Stephen: - Stephen Volk created BBCTV's notorious 'Halloween hoax' Ghostwatch, ITV's paranormal drama series Afterlife and the crime/supernatural thriller Midwinter of the Spirit based on the book by Phil Rickman. He is a two-time British Fantasy Award winner and the author of multiple screenplays and four collections of short stories.
Williams, Jen: - Jen Williams is an award-winning author from London. Her Copper Cat and Winnowing Flame trilogies have been nominated for British Fantasy Awards several times, with The Ninth Rain and The Bitter Twins each winning the Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Her pther novels include Dog Rose Dirt, Talonsister and Games for Dead Girls.
Young, Katie: - Katie Young is a writer of dark fiction and poetry. Her work appears in various anthologies including collections by Shortwave Publishing, Cemetery Gates Media, Brigids Gate Press, Crystal Lake, Haunt Publishing, Dark Dispatch, Scott J. Moses, Nyx Publishing, Ghost Orchid Press, and Fox Spirit Books.
Zelkovich, B.: - B. Zelkovich writes Speculative Fiction, anything from dragon hunting and space whales to demon-dealing and ghost tales. She likes to explore human emotions in very inhuman situations. When she isn't escaping through her imagination, she escapes into the wonders of the Pacific Northwest with her spouse and their four-legged son, Simon.
